Email Signature Gone Wild
This (sanitized) email signature came into my colleague today. I can’t say I’ve seen anything like it.
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[First Name] [Last Name]
CEO, Company Name
firstname.lastname@companyname.com
TEL: +44 (0)xx xxxx xxxx [main switchboard]
TEL: +44 (0)xx xxxx xxxx [direct]
MOB: +44 (0)xxx xxx xxxx
FAX: +44 (0)xx xxxx xxxx
SKYPE: ‘companyname’
WEB: www.companyname.com
You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/users/companyname
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/firstnamelastname
LinkedIn Group: http://www.linkedin.com/e/coolhandle
BLOG: http://coolhandle.wordpress.com
Twitter (me): http://twitter.com/firstnamelastname
Twitter (company): http://twitter.com/companyname
Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/companyname/presentations
NING: http://companyname.ning.com/profile/coolhandle
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Thinking About Thinking 
Now that’s what I call owning your online identity!
I sometimes wonder when the actual work happens when you spend so much time on your social media “presence.”
That is awful. I’m surprised they weren’t all bit.ly URLs so the sender could track click-thrus.
USENET’s been facing awful sigs for decades. There’s even a newsgroup devoted to flaming them (see the alt.fan.warlord FAQ for more info http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/afw/)
This person would be better served by consolidating all these presences on a hosted domain site. Then he/she could simply have email + company site + personal site.
I found this post really funny because I wrote about a similar issue a few weeks ago:
http://www.gordonzhu.com/2009/12/email-signatures/
I agree with @ScottKirsner — when is any work supposed to get done!!
How does this person have any time to get work done?
oops. I guess I came late with that comment. Can anybody really calculate the value of all of these social media to their profession? I’m not really in any of them, but i wonder if it is really worth the time and effort?
lol wow. they could try using one page: http://myonepage.com/